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Ficage In September.

Oct 22, 2012 19:50

Well, almost the end of this month, but let's do my word count for last month. Halfway through August I set a goal for 9,000 words in an attempt to finish four stories I was working on. I ended up hitting 10,700 words in those six weeks. I finished three of the four stories as well. I still have not finished The BFF's fic but I wrote three ( Read more... )

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dodger_sister November 6 2012, 23:52:41 UTC

Thanks, babe! The BFF's fic is coming along, it just seems like the more I write on it, the more I realize I still need - that's why it feels like the never-ending corridor. I started out thinking it would be about 5,000 words and I'll be lucky to keep it under 20,000.

How can you tell beforehand how many words (well, approximately) a fic will be? Because I NEVER know.

Clearly I never know either, hence why the 5,000 words I expected to do on The BFF fic's has turned into 12,000 and I am still not finished! It's why my Halloween story, which I expected to be 3,000 words, turned into 13,000. And why the Dean/Cas fic I am working on now, which I thought would 1,000, has already reach 3,000. I clearly largely under-estimate what my word count will be, even on fics that I have planned out ahead of time. (Even your birthday fic turned out about 3x as long as I had expected but at least that was a case of the story taking itself in an entirely different direction than I had planned).

I mean, my BB started out as something I would finish in 2000 words or something...

I can't even imagine that now. I do love a good domesticated Dean-has-a-baby fic but I can't even look at your story now and see that original idea you started telling me about, what, two years ago. I certainly can't see it being only 2,000 words! lol

wolfrider89 December 12 2012, 19:30:35 UTC

I do love a good domesticated Dean-has-a-baby fic but I can't even look at your story now and see that original idea you started telling me about, what, two years ago. I certainly can't see it being only 2,000 words!

Me neither! God, it has evolved so much from that. I guess that's what happens when you let an idea rest for a few years. :p

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